Robert Mesibov
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Robert Mesibov's Degrees
- PhD Zoology University of Tasmania
- Bachelors Zoology University of Tasmania
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert 'Bob' Evan Mesibov is an American born and educated Australian myriapod specialist. He earned a B.A. from New York University in 1966 and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971.
Robert Mesibov's Published Works
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Published Works
- Chemotaxis Toward Amino Acids in Escherichia coli (1972) (330)
- The Range of Attractant Concentrations for Bacterial Chemotaxis and the Threshold and Size of Response over This Range (1973) (259)
- Escherichia coli mutants defective in chemotaxis toward specific chemicals. (1969) (96)
- Diversity and abundance of some ground-dwelling invertebrates in plantation vs. native forests in Tasmania, Australia (2002) (91)
- Relative efficiency of pitfall trapping and hand-collecting from plots for sampling of millipedes (1995) (42)
- A specialist’s audit of aggregated occurrence records (2013) (28)
- Ecology and conservation of Tasmanipatus barretti and T. anophthalmus, parapatric onychophorans (Onychophora:Peripatopsidae) from northeastern Tasmania (1991) (20)
- An audit of some processing effects in aggregated occurrence records (2018) (15)
- Biogeography in a continental island: population structure of the relict endemic centipede Craterostigmus tasmanianus (Chilopoda, Craterostigmomorpha) in Tasmania using 16S rRNA and COI. (2012) (13)
- The millipede genus Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania and Victoria, with descriptions of a new genus and 24 new species (2005) (13)
- Tasmanipatus barretti gen. nov.,sp. nov. and T. anophthalmus sp. nov.: two new and unusual onychophorans (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae)from northeastern Tasmania (1991) (10)
- Native species dominate the millipede fauna in a second-rotation Pinus radiata plantation in Tasmania, Australia (2005) (10)
- Table of contents 2 (2005) (10)
- A zoogeographical singularity at Weavers Creek, Tasmania (1997) (9)
- A new genus of millipede (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania with a pseudo-articulated gonopod telopodite (2005) (9)
- A new millipede genus and a new species of Asphalidesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidea) from southern Tasmania, Australia (2009) (9)
- Patterns in pitfall captures of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) at coastal heathland sites in Tasmania (2003) (9)
- Dirt-encrusted and dragon millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) from Queensland, Australia (2006) (9)
- The Mersey Break: an unexplained faunal boundary on the north coast of Tasmania (1999) (8)
- The millipede genus Tasmaniosoma Verhoeff, 1936 Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae from Tasmania, Australia, with descriptions of 18 new species (2010) (7)
- A new genus of Tasmanian millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) with unusual spiracles and a mosaic distribution (2003) (7)
- Revision of Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae) (2009) (7)
- The millipede genus Gasterogramma (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) in Tasmania, Australia, with descriptions of seven new species (2003) (7)
- A new genus of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from wet forests in southern Victoria, with brief remarks on the Victorian Polydesmida (2004) (7)
- Lineage mosaics in millipedes (2003) (7)
- New and little-used morphological characters in Polydesmida ( Diplopoda ) (2010) (6)
- A new genus and four new species of millipedes from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae), with notes on male leg setae in some Tasmanian dalodesmids (2004) (6)
- Preliminary data on the anatomy of the genital systems in Craterostigmus tasmanianus (Craterostigmomorpha) and Esastigmatobius longitarsis (Henicopidae, Lithobiomorpha) (Chilopoda) (1996) (6)
- Australian Chordeumatidan Millipedes. III. A Review of the Millipede Family Metopidiotrichidae Attems in Australia (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida) (1997) (6)
- New species of Prosopodesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae) from Queensland, Australia (2012) (6)
- Single-species sampling in Tasmania: an inefficient approach to invertebrate conservation? (2002) (5)
- Known unknowns, Google Earth, plate tectonics and Mt Bellenden Ker: some thoughts on locality data (2012) (5)
- A new genus of burrowing and cave-dwelling millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia (2005) (5)
- The Chemistry of Some Dalodesmidean Millipedes from Tasmania (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). (2017) (5)
- A new genus of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia with a mosaic distribution (2004) (5)
- REDESCRIPTIONS OF ASPHALIDESMUS LEAE SILVESTRI, 1910 AND A. PARVUS (CHAMBERLIN, 1920) COMB. NOV. FROM TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA (DIPLOPODA: POLYDESMIDA: HAPLODESMIDAE) (2002) (5)
- DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY OF THE CENTIPEDE CRATEROSTIGMUS TASMANIANUS POCOCK, 1902 (CHILOPODA: CRA TEROSTIGMOMORPHA: CRATEROSTIGMIDAE) IN TASMANIA (1995) (4)
- Revision of the Australian millipede genus Pogonosternum Jeekel, 1965, with descriptions of two new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) (2017) (4)
- Giant Velvet Worm (Tasmanipatus barretti) in Tasmania, Australia - Effects of Planned Conversion of Native Forests to Plantations (2004) (4)
- New species of Asphalidesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidea) (2011) (4)
- Spare a thought for the losers (2004) (4)
- AN OVERVIEW OFTHE TASMANIAN MILLIPEDE FAUNA (2000) (4)
- Iulomorphid millipedes (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Iulomorphidae) of Tasmania, Australia (2017) (4)
- A remarkable case of mosaic parapatry in millipedes (2011) (4)
- Australian chordeumatidan millipeds. I. New observations on the genus Peterjohnsia Mauries, with the description of the a new species from Tasmania (Diplopoda : Chordeumatida : Peterjohnsiidae) (1994) (4)
- The millipede genera Gephyrodesmus Jeekel, 1983 and Orthorhachis Jeekel, 1985 in southeastern Australia, a new Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 from Victoria, and observations on male leg setae, spinnerets and metatergite sculpture (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) (2008) (4)
- The Australian millipede Dicranogonus pix Jeekel, 1982 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae): a species with and without paranota (2014) (4)
- Two new and unusual genera of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) from Tasmania, Australia (2003) (3)
- New species of Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae) (2013) (3)
- Some observations on the onychophoran fauna of Tasmania (1996) (3)
- Millipede Salvage in South-Western Victoria (2008) (3)
- A dataset for examining trends in publication of new Australian insects (2014) (2)
- Archived websites: A Data Cleaner's Cookbook (version 2) and BASHing data blog posts 1-100 (2020) (2)
- The first native Pyrgodesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) from Australia (2012) (2)
- New records for millipedes from southern Chile (Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae; Polyzoniida: Siphonotidae) (2017) (2)
- A new genus and species of dalodesmid millipede from New South Wales, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) (2015) (2)
- Archived websites: A Data Cleaner's Cookbook (version 2) and BASHing data blog posts 1-139 (2020) (1)
- Three new species of Tasmaniosoma Verhoeff, 1936 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from northeast Tasmania, Australia (2015) (1)
- A new and cryptic species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia (2019) (1)
- A new, alpine species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) (2018) (1)
- A new and unusual species of Amastigogonus Brölemann, 1913 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Iulomorphidae) (2017) (1)
- Two new millipede genera from northwest Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) (2010) (1)
- Cambaloid millipedes of Tasmania, Australia, with remarks on family-level classification and descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida) (2019) (1)
- The millipede genus Solaenodolichopus Verhoeff, 1924 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). 1. New genus diagnosis and redescriptions of named species (2014) (1)
- Hoplatessara luxuriosa (Silvestri, 1895) (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) is native to Australia, not New Guinea (2013) (1)
- Supplementary material 1 from: Mesibov R (2019) A new and cryptic species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 846: 31-41. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.846.35028 (2019) (0)
- Figure 3 from: Mesibov R (2018) A new, alpine species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 754: 103-111. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.754.25704 (2018) (0)
- Notes on Victorian Iulomorphidae (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida) (2017) (0)
- Supplementary material 1 from: Mesibov R (2019) Cambaloid millipedes of Tasmania, Australia, with remarks on family-level classification and descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida). ZooKeys 827: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.827.32969 (2019) (0)
- Giant velvet worm, Tasmanipatus baretti (Onychophora) in Tasmania, Australia (2004) (0)
- Two new monotypic genera of Queensland millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) (2013) (0)
- A new genus and species of narrow-range millipede (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia (2020) (0)
- Figure 4 from: Mesibov R (2019) Cambaloid millipedes of Tasmania, Australia, with remarks on family-level classification and descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida). ZooKeys 827: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.827.32969 (2019) (0)
- A new species of Tridactylogonus Jeekel, 1982 from South Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) (2017) (0)
- Figure 1 from: Mesibov R (2019) Cambaloid millipedes of Tasmania, Australia, with remarks on family-level classification and descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida). ZooKeys 827: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.827.32969 (2019) (0)
- Figure 3 from: Mesibov R (2019) A new and cryptic species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 846: 31-41. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.846.35028 (2019) (0)
- Figure 5 from: Mesibov R (2020) A second remarkable case of parapatry in a Tasmanian millipede genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). In: Korsós Z, Dányi L (Eds) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary. ZooKeys 930: 89-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/zo (2020) (0)
- Forest-dependent Species Persitence in the Production Forestry Landscapes of NE Tasmania: Findings from Population Viability Analyses (2005) (0)
- A second remarkable case of parapatry in a Tasmanian millipede genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) (2020) (0)
- Figure 6 from: Mesibov R (2020) A second remarkable case of parapatry in a Tasmanian millipede genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). In: Korsós Z, Dányi L (Eds) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary. ZooKeys 930: 89-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/zo (2020) (0)
- Figure 2 from: Mesibov R (2019) A new and cryptic species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 846: 31-41. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.846.35028 (2019) (0)
- Supplementary material 1 from: Mesibov RE (2021) An Australian collector's authority file, 1973–2020. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e70463. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e70463 (2021) (0)
- Figure 1 from: Mesibov R, Rodriguez J (2020) A new genus and species of narrow-range millipede (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 966: 1-8. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.966.56308 (2020) (0)
- Figure 3 from: Mesibov R (2020) A second remarkable case of parapatry in a Tasmanian millipede genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). In: Korsós Z, Dányi L (Eds) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary. ZooKeys 930: 89-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/zo (2020) (0)
- New Australian insects 1961-2010 from Australian Faunal Directory (2014) (0)
- Figure 2 from: Mesibov R (2019) An archived taxonomic website: Millipedes of Australia. Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e36385. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.7.e36385 (2019) (0)
- Figure 1 from: Mesibov R (2020) A second remarkable case of parapatry in a Tasmanian millipede genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). In: Korsós Z, Dányi L (Eds) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary. ZooKeys 930: 89-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/zo (2020) (0)
- Three new species of Cladethosoma Chamberlin, 1920 from southeast Queensland (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) (2020) (0)
- Figure 4 from: Mesibov R (2020) A second remarkable case of parapatry in a Tasmanian millipede genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). In: Korsós Z, Dányi L (Eds) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary. ZooKeys 930: 89-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/zo (2020) (0)
- An annotated list of the millipede (Diplopoda) species described by Johann Carl (2020) (0)
- Figure 5 from: Mesibov R (2019) Cambaloid millipedes of Tasmania, Australia, with remarks on family-level classification and descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida). ZooKeys 827: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.827.32969 (2019) (0)
- Figure 1 from: Mesibov R (2018) A new, alpine species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 754: 103-111. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.754.25704 (2018) (0)
- Australian collecting events for Robert Mesibov, 1973-2020 (2021) (0)
- Redescription of Brochopeltis mjoebergi Verhoeff, 1924 and description of a second Brochopeltis species from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) (2015) (0)
- Figure 8 from: Mesibov R (2020) A second remarkable case of parapatry in a Tasmanian millipede genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). In: Korsós Z, Dányi L (Eds) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary. ZooKeys 930: 89-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/zo (2020) (0)
- Figure 7 from: Mesibov R (2020) A second remarkable case of parapatry in a Tasmanian millipede genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). In: Korsós Z, Dányi L (Eds) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary. ZooKeys 930: 89-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/zo (2020) (0)
- Figure 3 from: Mesibov R (2019) Cambaloid millipedes of Tasmania, Australia, with remarks on family-level classification and descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida). ZooKeys 827: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.827.32969 (2019) (0)
- A new genus and species of native exotic millipede in Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) (2015) (0)
- Figure 2 from: Mesibov R (2018) A new, alpine species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 754: 103-111. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.754.25704 (2018) (0)
- Figure 2 from: Mesibov R (2019) Cambaloid millipedes of Tasmania, Australia, with remarks on family-level classification and descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida). ZooKeys 827: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.827.32969 (2019) (0)
- Figure 2 from: Mesibov R (2020) A second remarkable case of parapatry in a Tasmanian millipede genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). In: Korsós Z, Dányi L (Eds) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary. ZooKeys 930: 89-101. https://doi.org/10.3897/zo (2020) (0)
- Specimen records for the 10 currently known species of Asphalidesmus Silvestri, 1910. (.csv) (2011) (0)
- Figure 1 from: Mesibov R (2019) An archived taxonomic website: Millipedes of Australia. Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e36385. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.7.e36385 (2019) (0)
- Annotated catalogue of South American Dalodesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). (2017) (0)
- An Australian collector's authority file, 1973–2020 (2021) (0)
- Supplementary material 1 from: Mesibov R, Rodriguez J (2020) A new genus and species of narrow-range millipede (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 966: 1-8. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.966.56308 (2020) (0)
- An archived taxonomic website: Millipedes of Australia (2019) (0)
- Figure 1 from: Mesibov R (2019) A new and cryptic species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 846: 31-41. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.846.35028 (2019) (0)
- The millipede genus Tasmaniosoma Verhoeff, 1936 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia, with descriptions of 18 new species. Specimen records for the Tasmaniosoma species described in this paper. (2010) (0)
- Data Auditing, Cleaning and Quality Assurance Workflows from the Experience of a Scholarly Publisher (2019) (0)
- Figure 4 from: Mesibov R (2019) A new and cryptic species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 846: 31-41. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.846.35028 (2019) (0)
- Figure 2 from: Mesibov R, Rodriguez J (2020) A new genus and species of narrow-range millipede (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 966: 1-8. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.966.56308 (2020) (0)
- "Look what they've done to our data!" — How Aggregators Change Data Items in Collection Records (2018) (0)
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